Bain & Co. admits that the case for AI revenue depends on the unimaginable

6 trillion dollars in revenue. That's what Bain estimates AI will need to generate to ever turn a profit, given what's already been spent and what will be spent in the future.

How do you ever possibly get to 6 trillion? We can't yet know, they say. It would require more than just automating money-making services that already exist today. It would require creating new services, thanks to AI, that we don't even have today, that people will line up to pay for. Medical cures, always-available mental health, new devices, new services, AI girlfriends (I made that last one up, but probably).

So, literally anyone who tells you AI capex investment will pay off, cannot, by definition, tell you how exactly.. Just "trust me bro".